Improvement in refrigerators



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No. 209,852. Pat ente'd Nov. 12,1818.

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NITED STATES PATENT.

IMPROVEMENT IN REFRIGERATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 209,852, dated November 12, 1878 application filed August 19, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST AM, of the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Refrigerators, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top view, partly broken away, of the refrigerator embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section in line as m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the ice-holder.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists of a refrigerator-case having a mechanically-operated fan, in combination with a shifting ice-holder having a water-pipe, and with ways which support the ice-holder and are channeled, so as to direct the drip to outlets regardless of the position of the holder.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the refrigerating case or chamber, at one end of which is mounted gearing a, operated by spring-power or weight, for communicating power to a shaft, I), mounted in suitable bearin gs near the upper part of the case, and carrying a fan, 13, located within the chamber and over the ice holder or box 0, which icebox is supported on wheels (1, adapted to run on ways D secured to the inner sides of the chamber.

The box 0 .is provided with a rack, e, for supporting the ice, upwardly-projecting air pipes or passages f in its bottom, guards 9 over said passages to prevent water dropping into the same, and a pipe or outlet, h, for the melted ice or ice-water.

The upper faces of the ways D are preferably grooved for the wheels 61 of the ice-holder, and one (or both) of the ways has a pipe, E, which leads from the upper face of the way to a place of collection or discharge, and forms, as it were, a communication with the pipe h of the ice-holder. (See Fig. 2.)

The operation is as follows: The gearing a is wound by a suitable key, and its power is derived from springs or weights, as desired. The fan B receives rotation and drives air into the holder 0, which will be properly supplied with ice placed on the rack e. The air is driven through the ice, and consequently cooled, and, entering the pipes or passages f, it is forced in a similar condition into the receiving-chamber and against the food or article to be cooled, which is placed on racks or otherwise therein, one of the racks being shown at a to, Figs. 1 and 2.

The warm or stale air or heated matters are driven out, an exit therefor being shown by the arrow 1.

It will be seen that the food or article will be subjected to continuous forced currents of cold air, the advantages whereof are evident.

The melted ice escapes through the pipe h,

and, flowing on the way D thereunder, it enters the pipe E, from whence it may be directed to a place of collection or discharge.

hen the holder is to be replenished with ice or cleansed, it will be run on the ways from under the fan B to the end of the case A opposite to the gearing a. The drip or melted ice will flow through the pipe h to the top of the way D, and thence toward the pipe E, so that, regardless of the position of the ice-holder, the drip or melted ice will always be directed to the pipe E, and never into the receiving-chamber proper, so that the latter will be kept dry and clean at all times.

After replenishing or cleansing the holder 0 it is restored to its position and the fan B permitted to rotate, the etfects whereof are a repetition of the former operations.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a refrigerator with a mechanically-operated fan, and that ice-holders have been variously constructed; but I am not aware that it is old to construct an ice-holder that may be shifted under and from the fan and supported on channeled ways which are provided with pipes, into which the drip is directed regardless of the position of the holder; hence Ihave made an improvement in the art.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim" as new, and desire to secure by Let--. ters Patent, is-

1. The shifting ice-holder 0, provided with FFIGE.

Water-pipe h, in combination with the supand the supporting and channeled ways D,

porting and channeled ways D, provided with with discharge pipe or pipes E, all substana discharge pipe or pipes, E, substantially as tially as and for the purpose set forth.

and for the purpose set forth. AUGUST AXT.

2. The refrigerator-case having a meohani- Witnesses:

cally-operated fan, B, in combination with JOHN A.W1EDERSHEIM,

the shifting ice-holder (I, with water-pipe h, H. E. GARsEDi 

